Life on the Circuit with Lincoln: With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and Other Contemporaries"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface. |
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... Fremont in John- son County ; but in the large majority of counties in Logan's district not a single vote was cast against Buchanan . Judge Davis ' house was but a few yards from the Illi- nois Central depot ; and on going there neither ...
... Fremont in John- son County ; but in the large majority of counties in Logan's district not a single vote was cast against Buchanan . Judge Davis ' house was but a few yards from the Illi- nois Central depot ; and on going there neither ...
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... Fremont , except eleven votes for McLean . New York gave 93 for Fremont . " Next day at noon I was on hand with the paper again , from which I read the following , viz .: " The convention then proceeded to an informal ballot for Vice ...
... Fremont , except eleven votes for McLean . New York gave 93 for Fremont . " Next day at noon I was on hand with the paper again , from which I read the following , viz .: " The convention then proceeded to an informal ballot for Vice ...
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... Fremont , and remarked : " It's a shame for a man with such a head as that to beat Judge McLean . " Lincoln took the paper quite mechanically , and looked at it for a moment with no show of interest , and then handed it back , with the ...
... Fremont , and remarked : " It's a shame for a man with such a head as that to beat Judge McLean . " Lincoln took the paper quite mechanically , and looked at it for a moment with no show of interest , and then handed it back , with the ...
Page 180
... Fremont were anxious to have the National Union Convention postponed . " It's very natural they should , " quoth Abraham . " There were two men in jail here , a few weeks since , under sentence of death , and their friends were anxious ...
... Fremont were anxious to have the National Union Convention postponed . " It's very natural they should , " quoth Abraham . " There were two men in jail here , a few weeks since , under sentence of death , and their friends were anxious ...
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... Fremont attempted military emancipation , I forbade it , because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity . When , a little later , General Cameron , then Secretary of War , suggested the arming of the blacks , I objected ...
... Fremont attempted military emancipation , I forbade it , because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity . When , a little later , General Cameron , then Secretary of War , suggested the arming of the blacks , I objected ...
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Page 281 - Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Page 568 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 208 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
Page 278 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Page 568 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 312 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Page 389 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is Just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Page 468 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, • Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Page 350 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Page 464 - I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through Mie town.